Linear display of ECG signals

A method for displaying ECG data of a patient, the method comprising:

• a. receiving an ECG waveform of a patient;
• b. determining at least one data point representing only a portion of the ECG waveform from a time domain portion of the ECG waveform in a manner other than deviation from a patient-specific baseline;
• c. structuring the data in a database of ECG data according to a Cabrera sequence that includes both limb leads and chest leads;
• d. providing a linear scale on a display;
• e. defining a horizontal row of several recurrent display slots in a display domain of the display, the several recurrent display slots including at least one display slot for each limb lead and each chest lead, ordered in the horizontal row according to the Cabrera sequence;
• f. associating a sequential one of the several recurrent display slots with the at least one data point based on the order in which the at least one data point is stored in the Cabrera structured database of ECG data;
• g. displaying the at least one data point on the linear scale in the sequential one of the several recurrent display slots associated with the at least one data point as the only ECG data displayed at a time in the sequential one of the several recurrent display slots;
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• h. displaying the data points associated with each of the several recurrent display slots with interconnections between the displayed data points to form a single waveform across all of the recurrent display slots.

An ECG monitoring system for identifying ECG deviation data of a patient, the system comprising:

• a set of leads adapted to monitor the ECG of a patient;
• a display;
• a processor configured to control the display and to execute an instance that during execution is operative to:
• determine, in a manner other than deviation from a patient-specific baseline, a singular data point that represents a time-domain value of the ECG data for each ECG lead of the set of ECG leads adapted for monitoring the ECG of a patient to form a data set;
• structure the data set according to a Cabrera sequence that includes both limb leads and chest leads, to form a Cabrera structured data set;
• define a horizontal row of several recurrent display slots in a display domain, the several recurrent display slots including at least one display slot for each limb lead and each chest lead, ordered in the horizontal row according to the Cabrera sequence;
• associate a sequential one of the several recurrent display slots with each singular data point in accordance with the sequential ordering of the each singular data point in the Cabrera structured data set to form a sequentially display domain ordered Cabrera structured data set;
• render each singular data point in the sequentially display domain ordered Cabrera structured data set on a linear scale of a display in the order in which the singular data point appears in the sequentially display domain ordered Cabrera structured data set as the only ECG data displayed at a time on the linear scale;
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• display each singular data point associated with each of the several recurrent display slots with interconnections between the displayed data points to form a single waveform across all of the recurrent display slots.